Just past the ninth anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting, the leader of the Sandy Hook memorial project offers advice to 1 October Memorial Committee.
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The contribution from a Las Vegas law firm was announced Wednesday by the 1 October Memorial Committee during its monthly meeting.
A recent planning survey for a permanent memorial honoring the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting elicited hundreds of emotional responses.
On the same day that the latest 1 October Memorial Committee’s survey results were released, country music star Jason Aldean announced on his Instagram that his security guard, Ryan Fleming, has died.
“I think it demonstrates as much as anything does that their heart is where it ought to be as we work on this,” Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson said of MGM Resorts International.
A number of surveys will be conducted to help narrow the public’s priorities for a permanent memorial honoring victims and survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.
The online survey, which included 15 questions and was distributed by the 1 October Memorial Committee, ran between March 1 and 14.
“It is so important that we come up with a memorial that we can all be proud of, one that best reflects the wishes of those affected,” said Mynda Smith, whose sister died in the mass shooting.
“Now I don’t have this weird feeling of being in limbo, wondering where my family fits in all of this,” said the daughter of the 59th victim.
A California medical examiner has ruled that the woman died from injuries she suffered in the shooting, but Las Vegas police said the official death toll isn’t changing.
A vigil will be held at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in honor of Kimberly Gervais, who died more than two years after she was paralyzed in the mass shooting on the Strip.
A Southern California woman has died more than two years after she was paralyzed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
Among the thousands of Californians facing tragedy again Friday were survivors of both the shooting at Borderline Bar and Grille and the Route 91 Harvest country music festival attack in Las Vegas. They included Brendan Kelly and Molly Maurer.
Telemachus Orfanos, a survivor of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, was one of the 12 killed Wednesday night when a gunman opened fire at a country bar in California.
On Saturday, Centennial Hills Park in the northwest Las Vegas Valley held the largest Route 91 Harvest festival shooting reunion for survivors, first responders and families of the 58 people killed and hundreds more injured Oct. 1, 2017, on the Strip.
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A pedestrian was found dead south of Harry Reid International Airport in what police are describing as a possible hit-and-run.
Vegas Stronger CEO Dave Marlon said the most effective members of the organization’s street team have personal experience with homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness.
The Friday high should be around 109 with slightly lower temperatures on Saturday and Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.